How Resquared builds its local business data (October 2026)

The data

How Resquared builds the most complete local business database

Most local business data is one directory, copied and resold. Resquared starts from the other end. We find every digital footprint a brick-and-mortar business leaves, decide which sources to trust for each fact, and keep checking. That is how one database covers 14.7 million local businesses in the US and Canada.

Find every footprint

Public records and filings, the business's own website, social profiles, review sites, maps and listings. One storefront can show up dozens of times under slightly different names, addresses and phone numbers. We resolve them into one business.

Prove the business is real and open

Not every listing is a real, operating business. We score each source on how reliable it is for core identity and existence, and keep a business only when the strongest sources agree.

Pick the best source for every attribute

A source that is right about the address can be wrong about the email. We rank sources separately for each of hundreds of attributes, from emails, phones and decision-maker names to hours, categories and services, and take each value from the source that is strongest for it.

Verify what you will act on

Emails are verified before they reach you, so your outreach lands with the business and not in a bounce report.

Model what nobody publishes

Square footage comes from satellite imagery run through our own machine learning model. Revenue estimates for US businesses use the same kind of modeling.

Read the business itself, continuously

We read businesses' own websites as they change, so services, staff and contact details reflect what the business says today, and the database refreshes continuously.

public records and filingsbusiness websites read livesocial profilesreview sitesmaps and listingssatellite imagery

How the numbers on these pages are counted

Every number on these pages comes from the Resquared local business database, the same records Resquared users prospect from. We count active records and leave out hidden records, test records and records marked permanently closed.

Geography

A metro is every business within 25 miles, straight line, of a fixed downtown point. Neighboring metros can overlap, so metro counts do not add up to a national total.

Category	Listed types that count
Restaurants	restaurants
Salons and barbershops	hair salons, barbers, nail salons, hair stylists
Gyms and fitness studios	gyms, fitness & instruction, yoga, martial arts, trainers
Medical offices	doctors, chiropractors, physical therapy, optometrists, medical centers
Dental practices	dentists
Pet businesses	pets
Auto repair shops	auto repair, body shops, oil change stations, tires
Retail shops	shopping

Fields and coverage

Independent: the business is not part of a multi-location brand in our data. Brand size is the brand's location count.
Incorporation year: available for part of the records; every page says how many. Recorded years in the database currently end in 2023, which is why we report "2015 or later" and not the last few years.
Employee range: available for part of the records; reported only as "50 or more employees".
A missing field means only that our data does not have it; the business may still have one.

What we do not publish

No individual business, owner, email, phone number or address.
No page with fewer than 50 businesses; any count under 10 shows as "under 10".
No opening counts: our records do not carry a reliable opening date. Month-over-month changes in The Main Street Index describe changes in our listed records, which also reflect how our coverage grows.
No campaign results from Resquared users as absolute rates.

Who publishes this

Resquared publishes these pages from its own database, the same one Resquared customers prospect from every day.

How we build the data